Planet SoC

Who would have thought that driving across Canada, moving into a new house in a totally unknown city, finding a social life, beginning a master’s project, applying for scholarships, taking a full-time course load, and trying to TA a course without knowing anything about the subject would occupy all of my time during the past month? Despite my last post to this blog where I proclaimed that I would continue to work on various programming projects after GSoC finished, I don’t think I’ve even signed in to IRC let alone looked at a piece of source code. Sigh.
So, why I am I posting now? Mostly so I don’t feel as guilty, but also because I’ve got some downtime coming up (3 hours each way on the plane between Alberta and Ontario, to be exact) on Thanksgiving weekend. If I’ve finished all the schoolwork due the following week, and if I feel studied-out for midterms coming up, then I’ll take advantage of the time to pay some much needed attention to my still-unfinished SoC project, as well as to Referencer (at least that one has the excuse that it will be useful in school). I figure by writing things down in a public location (though it may not be read by anyone else) I’ll be more likely to actually follow through with my plan, so hopefully by this time in two weeks I’ll have made some kind of progress. If not… I promise I’m still thinking about it, I still read Planet GNOME on occasion, and one of these days I will make a sincere effort to become a more active member of the community. Until then, I’m working on getting through school on my way to becoming a “real” person.